Wednesday, June 21, 2017

2D Materials

The super materials that could trump grapheneA wave of innovative flat materials is following in the wake of graphene — but the most exciting applications could come from stacking them into 3D devices. ... by Elizabeth GibneyPhysicists have used almost every superlative they can think of to describe graphene. This gossamer, one-atom-thick sheet of carbon is flexible, transparent, stronger than steel, more conductive than copper and so thin that it is effectively two-dimensional (2D). No sooner was it isolated in 2004 than it became an obsession for researchers around the world. .... "